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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Government to Make Darren Minnikins Homeless

In Bishop Auckland right now the "People's Bank" is attempting to make Darren Minnikin homeless.

Claim 8PA12900:
Northern Rock plc versus Mr Darren Minnikin

Congratulations Mr Minnikin. You are the first victim of socialist economics today...

61 comments:

Cameron Brown said...

I'm not in favour nationalisation but this is stupid. Presumably the man didn't pay his mortgage and would be evicted regardless of who owned his mortgage?

Anonymous said...

Cruel, heartless Labour bastards.

And meanwhile Sandler draws £90k a month. Where's the soical justice in that?

Shocking and evil.

...At least, that's what the left usually say, right?

Anonymous said...

This is a silly comment Guido...if Northern Rock is seeking a repossesion order against this client he is likely to have been in default for more than a year!! This has nothing to do with socialist economics... its just sheer spite on your part!! get over it Guido!

dearieme said...

The name is surely invented?

backwoodsman said...

nulab = Serially Incompetent
Criminally Corrupt

(Don't tell Polly 'though !)

Anonymous said...

And now,

The War of Minnikins Arrears ?

Sniper

Anonymous said...

Will Mr Minnikin be voting Labour at the next election?

watch default rates on Rock mortgages soar as mr 90k a month gets to grips with the fraudulent practices at this rubbish bankrupt institution!

i wonder if one of those 1970's dinosaur northeast labour MPs will ask about poor mr minnikin at pmqs tomorrow?

lets all laugh at gordon....

Anonymous said...

A contrary view is that it would be a far bigger scandal for Northern Crock to do nothing if people default on their mortgage.
As a stakeholder in this business (albeit an unwilling one), I would prefer a policy of snatch-backs.
The action in the Minnikin matter is likely to have started some time ago.
What will be interesting in the coming months is whether a hard line policy is maintained in the event of a default or whether Zanu Labour interests in preserving the sunny north east as a land of socialist milk and honey and where potential voters are to treated with kid gloves.
I can see the argument now for a softly softly approach....not a good time to repossess..blah blah, falling house prices blah blah....better let them live there foc than have to board them up blah blah.

It will also be interesting to see if the policy on repossessions is applied consistently across the country.

Jess The Dog said...

Wonder if Mr Minniken's MP will ask Broon about his predicament or vote against the nationalisation!

Fat chance!

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/helen_goodman/bishop_auckland

Mr Minnikin said...

Dee ah geet ah preeze ooh summat theen man?

Anonymous said...

Gordon must immediately offer to rehouse Mr Minnikin and all the diddy little minnikins at Chequers. Nothing less will do. Justice for the Minnikin One!

number 6 said...

I have a mortgage with Northern Rock I now intend to default massively on it and spend all the money saved on a chav lifestyle of beer, McDonalds, fags and spunking out useless sprogs with any old slapper I can ply with alcopops.

Then we Northern Rock attempt to throw me out I will tell Gordon that he has to overlook the matter or I won't ever vote Labour again.

Course when they do throw me out Gordon and the colleauges will have to rehouse me cos I is on the street aint I - fucking ace.

Anonymous said...

Poor bloke. Who knows what his personal circumstances are, whether he was reckless or hit bad luck, losing your home is a big deal. Where will he be housed now?

Presumably Mr Minnikin can leave, shut the door and post the keys to Downing Street?

no more free lunch said...

Darren should have paid his mortgage instead of pissing his welfare benefits up the wall.

It's time to pay the piper. No bailouts for non-payers.

Anonymous said...

i have lots of debt can i have a billion please?

English Liberation Front said...

I don't understand why Sandler has the job. He looks over 50 to me and most people over 50 in this shite country are made redundant. What is the dirty little secret? Why are all the men at the top in the corporate world over 50, deciding how many redundancies to preside over, and everyone else over 50 out of a job or delivering supermarket groceries? I just don't get it. Are they alien lizards?

robbie said...

Now all together boys and girls

Dance ti' thy daddy, sing ti' thy mammy,
Dance ti' thy daddy, ti' thy mammy sing;
Thou shall hev a fishy on a little dishy,
Thou shall hev a fishy when the boat comes in.

Well known Northumbrian folk song -could it be Northern Crock's theme song - when the boat comes in...
Sandler's and Godbehere's has already,as will the lawyers who will be coining it from now on the shareholders' disputes and Goldman Sachs whose bill for advice on the private bids is reputed to be £100 million. Ms Cooper aka Mrs Balls would not confirm this latter point last night to Paxo.

Anonymous said...

I wonder if Mr Minnikin had one of Labour Rocks speciality mortgages 125% of the property value, six times annual salary, first 12 months interest only. No questions asked.

Anonymous said...

i expect Caroline Flint will be there to spit in Mr Minnikins face.

caring and considerate that the Labour party are!

Anonymous said...

Rather he is the first victim of an out of control British banking system - that cannot regulate itself. Nationalisation was the only real choice at this stage. Darling is useless but Cameron and Osborne would be more of the same

Anonymous said...

Can we have Yvette Cooper on TV more please.

That way, NuLab won't just lose, they will be hammered.

(What will Ed do when he finds out that "Yvette" is really Timothy??!!)

the end game said...

Northern Crook grabbed 20% market share by dishing out 125% LTV and self-cert liar loans to any Tom, Dick, or Darren Minikins who wanted one.

Their mortgage book is as full of toxic sub-prime sludge as any US bank now floundering under mass defaults.

NR is a crock of shit and will collapse within 12 months unless Brown bails it out for years ahead with billions of pounds of taxpayers money.

But to do that he will have to raise taxes, increase government borrowings, and slash public spending.

NR is fucked whatever way you look at it and so is Brown.

Anonymous said...

You think Northern Rock should stop repossessions just because the government owns them? You want to waste EVEN MORE MONEY THAN THE GOVERNMENT on this mess?

Anonymous said...

Get real, plonkers: The Government won't make any attempt to influence repo policy - they know nutters like you lot are watching, and it would be too obvious. And the feckless Geordie hordes will still vote Lab regardless, tribal loyalty being much easier than thinking for yourself. What matters is how it plays in the marginals, and a couple of years down the road they won't give a stuff. The whole NR story is a bit of a political non event outside Westminster and you spittle-flecked obsessives gleefully digging yourselves deeper into your already entrenched positions somewhere to the right of madness.

Ministry of silly names and faces said...

So Gordon Brown is now the Repo Man.

Best he doesn't send Darling Alistair around to collect Mr Minnikins's keys though, no one would be taken seriously with those eyebrows.

red despot spotter said...

number 6 i quite agree me too .

although i have to ask guido being as the legislation hasnt been enacted yet , mr minnikin appears to be to a premature , but given that the legislation will go through .

john redwood has done an interesting piece on it today , we are not even going to know the assett book .

snotty not been on yet , just voice broadcasts so far. like the times cartoon with them both dodgeing vegitables.

stanislav said...

Ninety thousands pounds a month. That's New Labour public service for you. If only we had a few more like him, going and living part-time among the backward, barbarian bonny lads and lassies, beggaring himself on five grand a day in order to keep Geordie voting Labour.

When, inevitably, this smirking git fucks up it will be one-two-three, altogether now, learn valuable lessons, draw a line in the sand, move forward and not get into a blame culture. It'll be: Oh, fuck me, fucked-up didya, never mind, poor chap, here's a million pounds off the taxpayer in compensation for your hurt feelings; no? alright then five million and a seat in the Lords.

These public sector, six pound an hour arse-wipers, care workers, busting their backs picking up elderly folk while being robbed of their pensions and screwed down to wages set against a fairy story inflation figure, why can't they show some of the self-sacrifice of Mr Wotsisname ?

These squaddies, endlessly bleating about their missing limbs and eyes, what do they know, what can they teach Mr Greedy Arsehole about sacrifice; don't they know that Dame Polly Mascara, toiling away at her laptop sheds a tear for every rich politician embarrassed in the line of duty ?

And finally, just to put into perspective the very real conribution made by Mr Smug Git, his small stipend is only just about five times that awarded to Plagues Matron Shitface Hewitt in order for her to keep her mouth shut and have a nice long holiday in Europe.

All these little people, with their politics of envy and their - as prominent journalist-thinker and prize cunt, Mr Colville, of the failing Telegraph describes it - lively, mildly anarchic stew of internet criticism, don't they know that if you pay peanuts you get monkeys but if you pay a King's ransom, you get merchant bankers. And what a load of merchant bankers they are.

At a time like this the nation enquires: when there's so much thirsty work afoot for the likes of him, where is Lady Sir Michael White and his trusty kneepads, Get yourself up North, Mike, your services are needed. And you, Toilets Kev, to the service of your masters, get ye gone. Spin this fucker.

number 6 said...

Red despot,

See yer down the pub then (before we hit the job centre). Let's crack open a few bottles of hoochpiss, turn our baseball caps back to front (I favour Yankees myself, despite being a Boston Red Sox fan, cos it look cooler dont it) and knock 'em back before knocking up some Sharon, Shaquilla or Tracy, 'cos whatever we do from now on in the government will be looking after us!

All those years working and slaving to get a house with mega mortgage,what a fucking waste - time to get onboard the Nu Labor express whoo whoo.

Anonymous said...

"The Rock" is also still offering 125% self certificated mortgages on its web site
A "prudent" bank only advances 90% of valuation as a maximum and 3-4 times income subject to proof(Never touch over 100% and never never never allow a customer to self certificate income particularly when the property market is at the top.)It's a well known fact that if you allow the "salesmen" in the organisation to manage your book you will get spectacular growth for 2/3 years but also an equally spectacular write off rate. You may get slagged off in the "good times" for being too cautious but at times like these you are suddenly the hero of the moment for curtailing your more adventurous sales force who look at the commission figure and market share and not whether the advance is prudent or affordable should it all go tits up.

minnikins 15 minutes of fame said...

Guido makes housepricecrash.co.uk and Darren Minnikins has his Andy Warhol moment:

http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=68737

Zastrozzi said...

Sniper - copyright that before Matthew Parris nicks it. Superb, sir.

Rich Jon who can afford to pay his bills said...

Darren Minnikin?? Fuck him - he should have paid his bills the northern pikey cunt...

I can only hope that the dynamic duo of Brown & Darling act ruthlessly against anyone who defaults on their mortgage. Let's see how keen they really are to look after the taxpayers interests, and what effect that has on their northern heartlands...

Minnikins Moment said...

Northern Rock's Business Model For Dummies

Penfold said...

And they say that timing is all....what a beauty.

45govt said...

Is Minnikin related to the Millipede brothers of recent fame? Could they all have their mortgages at the Crock?
I think as rich jon so eloquently points out above, they are all northern pikey cunts, who shouldn't be living indoors with plumbing in the first place.

Fucking free-loading Geordie assholes are only one step above the Scotch scum, and their celtish like in NI.

Every time I get really downcast at the thieving corruption of this shitshower, I cast my mind back to the late unmissed crook of crooks Charles show-me-the-money Haughey, and realise, fuck me, they've still got a way to go.

rich bastard said...

Lay off Northern Rock you moaners. I've got a barrowload of hard-earned cash in one of their savings accounts and am mighty glad it's safe. In fact they're now paying a loyalty bonus to those who didn't cut and run. Good deal if you ask me. But I still think Gordo is a cunt.

Anonymous said...

Who cares ? He shouldn't have taken out a mortgage that he couldn't afford. Cunt.

If this is the company we keep said...

Rich jon et al of your ilk, none of us knows the circumstances of Mr. Minnikin's repossession, other than that he (and perhaps his family) are being thrown out of their home for defaulting on their mortgage.

There are umpteen everyday reasons why this might have happened without it being foreseeable or being anyone's 'fault' e.g. family breakdown, illness, death of a partner etc. Sure, you might be able to take out insurance, if you are eligible, but very often such policies are worthless - the first thing the c*nts do is go through your medical files looking for any excuse not to pay out, which is why many people, sensibly, don't waste their money on such a dodgy bet.

At the end of the day, while repossessions are a necessary part of life, it ill behoves us as a society that an arrogant shit such as yourself should be so disparaging of a family that you know nothing about at this time of personal tragedy.

Grow up and behave with some common decency.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is a silly comment Guido...if Northern Rock is seeking a repossesion order against this client he is likely to have been in default for more than a year!! This has nothing to do with socialist economics... its just sheer spite on your part!! get over it Guido!


No, you fucking mong, the point is that there would be a Labour cunt on the telly every five minutes telling us about the heartless bastards if there was a Tory Government.

Mind you we shouldn't expect too much wit from a Labour cock sucking acolyte.

If this is the company we keep said...

Same goes for your, Mr. '45govt' - immature, arrogant, racist, ignorant little cock-sucker. You are a disgrace to humanity. Get it down your scrawny neck.

Anonymous said...

Northern Rock will most probably hasten the approaching serious house price crash. They're going to start running down their mortgage business to start paying back the taxpayer. They will do this by upping their interest rates.

Approx 20% of the mortgage supply market will disappearing in the very near future - this has been Northern Rock's share. Not only will there be 20% less mortgages to go round, the other banks now have less competition and can increase the IRs they are demanding.

As the mortgage market collapses, prices will collapse as demand is a function of mortgage availability.

stockport chip shop owner said...

Mardarse Minikunt should have kept off the tabs and the Broon Ale and concentrated on paying his mortgage off like the rest of us have to. It's no use whining now, the Labour-voting, dole-scrounging Geordie chav layabout.

I get fuckers like him trying to ponce free fish and chips off me every week. They've got no money to feed their kids but they've always got plenty for fags and booze and holidays in Lloret de Mar.

It's time they grew up and paid their way like the rest of us.

Crocodile HeeHee said...

According to Brown Broadcasting Corp's Robert Peston, Northern Rock's Ron Sandler is a Non Dom , as is Rock's Totty Financial Controller.

Any non dom mortgages available??

Rich Jon said...

If this is the company we keep...

You really seem to have a few issues. Poor you, perhaps you should seek help from the experts - the nice people at Picture are waiting for your call... 0800 013 1050.
Say hello to Peter while you're on with them.

Twat.

Tartwatch said...

Mr Minnikins should be ok. His kind SOCIALIST MP Helen Goodman RENTS out a 1 bedroom flat in London according to her Members Register entry in 2007. If he phones Kenny Boy he can get a rent allowance and congestion waiver.

Brick shithouse said...

The leaking, dripping arsehole that is Anonymous 3:33 PM, February 19, 2008 does well to be anonymous. He's obviously sucked so much cock himself that it's addled his brain. "Mongol" and the diminutive "mong" have long been seen as offensive and unacceptable as references people with Downes Syndrome. If you want to make slighting references behave like a man and leave the unoffending and defenceles alone. Let me guess cocksucker, you're bitter because you couldn't bring your mother to orgasm but the port watch from the boiler room of the USS Enterprise could, all syphilitic 27 of them. Or was it the awful realisation that you were only truly happy with a dildo up your arse?
Talk like a man.

Elby the Beserk said...

@rich bastard said...

// Lay off Northern Rock you moaners. I've got a barrowload of hard-earned cash in one of their savings accounts and am mighty glad it's safe. In fact they're now paying a loyalty bonus to those who didn't cut and run. Good deal if you ask me. But I still think Gordo is a cunt.
//

"THEY" are now paying a loyalty bonus? I think you mean WE are now paying you a loyalty bonus, yes?

thick as thieves said...

I wonder if that cunt brown will be targeting conservative voters for repossession first!
and considering the government's imperative to make this less fucked up than it is and northern rock's desperation for cash, will the crock move faster to repossess than other banks?
brace yourself gordon,
you are about to be vigorously fucked.

Anonymous said...

What happened to the BL logo Mr fawkes. Did you get the boys pop round or something?

Anonymous said...

So what happens to Granite? and will the Downs Syndrome charity name misuse still be investigated?

http://myblog.harpmandoodle.com/blog/_archives/2008/2/19/3533040.html

Anonymous said...

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/NRMadness/

"As of the time of writing this petition, Northern Rock appears to still be offering its infamous 125% loan-to-value mortgage as well as a variety of other risky or sub-prime mortgage products.

Given that these lending practices helped to bring the bank to its knees in the first place, that this kind of lending has contributed the dangerous credit bubble we are now in and that as UK tax payers we the undersigned have each been forced by the government to underwrite Northern Rock's loan book with several thousand pounds of our own money, we would like to petition Gordon Brown to return Northern Rock to a traditional low risk business model based on maximum mortgage lending of 3.5 times a person's salary or 3 times a couple's joint salary and a requirement for all mortgages to have at least a 20% deposit.

We the undersigned believe this is necessary in order to safeguard our money which has been used to support Northern Rock against our will."

Anonymous said...

The leaking, dripping arsehole that is Anonymous 3:33 PM, February 19, 2008 does well to be anonymous. He's obviously sucked so much cock himself that it's addled his brain. "Mongol" and the diminutive "m...bla bla bla...

ROFLMFAO!!

What a cunt and a mong.

Now fuck off Labour cock sucking cunt and try and make a post on your own blog...or is it just too painful trying to find something positive to say about the objects of your wanking in the Labour hierarchy?

Cunt.

English Liberation Front said...

Sandler's track record:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2002/jul/09/saving.sandlerreview2

From £450,000 at NatWest to £1,080,000 at Northern Rock. Brownite crony on big money. Smell a rat? Smell hundreds of them but they ain't leaving the sinking ship, they're all in the board room and cabinet.

robbie said...

Sandler was effectively put in charge of £100bn of taxpayers’ money when he was parachuted in as the new head of Northern Rock. That’s £3,500 worth of exposure for every taxpayer in Britain. However, an intriguing possibility has emerged – he may not be one of the British taxpayers exposed to the problem if his nationalisation plan backfires.

Ron Sandler may not be risking his own taxes.The former City executive was born in Zimbabwe and is said to hold a German passport. Therefore, he qualifies for non-domicile tax status and could benefit from Alistair Darling’s u-turn on proposals to clampdown on non-doms last week.

Public records indicate he may be taking advantage of the tax loopholes available to him. His sizeable Wimbledon mansion is owned by Sullana Investments, an offshore trust registered in the tax haven of Jersey.

Should the Treasury come clean on the biggest ever nationalised company being run by a non-British taxpayer?

Anonymous said...

I had a Northern Crock mortgage for close on twenty years and during that time I was threatened with repossession twice due to redundancy and ill health. They added thousands in 'mortgage arrears admin fees'. At one point they charged me £150 per month for being 1 month behind in my payments. I like to think their current problem stem from the curse I placed on them a few years ago. But in reality I now know they're just greedy northern shits who deserve everything they're going to get. Trouble is, silly taxpaying sods like me will pick up the bill at the end.

M person of no fixed political abode said...

Had Darling and co. had any sense, they have suspended all applications for repo for a period of one month for "review" as a good PR stunt.

But they wont, will they? Idiots.

naughty boy brown said...

if this is the company we keep 3:23pm

Ooooh! Please spank me too!

the janitor said...

Aptly-named Crock board members:

Philip Remnant was made non-executive chairman of the Shareholder Executive by Alistair Darling in June, just before he was appointed Chancellor.

Gee said...

From Sam Coates' Red Box:

it emerged that the legislation to nationalise the stricken bank excluded the offshore company, Granite, which controls £40 billion of the bank's mortgages. Opposition parties say these are some of the bank's most secure assets. This has allowed Vince Cable to say that Northern Rock has been left with "rubbish" assets and he is now threatening to withdraw his support for the bill pending further clarifications from the Treasury.

Left with the 'rubbish' mortgages, after paying millions to 'Consultants' and millionaire
salaries to boardmembers! Keep up the good work Vince Cable!

Can't find out who is behind Granite of Jersey.

Anonymous said...

Congrats Guido. You have a mention in the DT.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/21/nrock321.xml

Half the article seems to be in garbage though.

Anonymous said...

The world has changed for repossessions since nationalisation.

When Northern Rock was private it could repossess houses simply because the borrowers hadn't paid their mortgage.

Public bodies such as the Police, the Department of Transport and now Northern Rock can't take your house off you without complying with the Human Rights Act. Public authories have to show respect for a person's home. That is why councils have lengthy policies for when they may and may not evict council tenants. Here is one such policy from Newcastle City Council:-

http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/wwwfileroot/regen/nhf/PreventingRepeatHomeNorthern Rock's in house lawyers lessnessandEvictionsProtocol06.pdf

Northern Rock's learned friends are about to find their lives have become alot harder.


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